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Album compiled by Theo Nightingall in the late 1940s
Date: ca1946-ca1949
From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall
By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986
Reference: PA1-o-1031
Description: Most of the images are records of holidays taken in the late 1940s. The first is a winter trip on motorcycles to the south Island showing Christchurch, the mountains and the countryside under snow. The next, also by motorcycle is a North Island trip first to Hawkes Bay and Napier via the Manawatu Gorge, then north to Rotorua and the thermal areas, then back through the central North Island taking in the Huka Falls and the Chateau. Next there is a fishing trip to the Marlborough Sounds which includes a visit to Blenheim, and a few images of a camping trip. The other theme is social. A birthday party for Theo's brother Jack. This includes detailed images of the guests, cutting the cake, beer drinking, and chess playing. Another group of images appears to be a card party combined with a meal and cash for gambling. One page of images shows the destruction of a building by fire photographed at night Arrangement: Proof sheets of the North Island trip can be found at PAColl-7167-10-25 to PAColl-7167-10-27 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :[View of Nelson foreshore]. 1845
Date: 1845
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898
Reference: C-173-001
Description: Shows the coastal road and hills of the Nelson foreshore, with what is now Abel Tasman National Park seen in the distance. Two Maori carry a rod between them with a line of fish hanging from it. Various houses can be seen at the road's edge, and boats of different types are in the water. One dinghy in the foreground is kept under a roofed shelter. Oxen pulling a cart can also be seen travelling the road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Heaphy 1845 [in faint brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 215 x 310 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, who acquired the work at a French provincial auction and possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by Francis Dillon Bell and Charles Heaphy, purchased 2006 and 2014, reference numbers C-025-025, C-012-007, and C-173-002.